Aliesha Bryan (La Paloma Negra) has enjoyed many meaningful milestones, including choreographic commissions, and local, national and international performances. Notable appearances include: the Hemispheric Institute; WestFest Dance Festival; United Nations Headquarters; Victoria Flamenco Festival; Terraza 7; the African American Museum in Philadelphia, and the Kings Theatre. La Paloma is a featured lecturer in the Camille A. Brown & Dancers Social Dance for Social Change series, curated by notable scholar Brenda Dixon Gottschild, and has also been profiled in Dance Magazine. La Paloma is also a body-based psychotherapist, educator and speaker and spearheads a three-tiered organization focused on the diffusion of Flamenco and Spanish dance, intersections between movement and mental health, and access to pertinent and consequential resources. Her musings and academic writings can be found via her website (www.blackbirddances.com) and on BBC Sounds podcast "The Reset", among others.